syncdb confuses any app named auth with its own

[dean@…]

I created an app called 'auth' which included some very, very simple auth type stuff. I have the django.contrib.auth removed from my INSTALLED_APPS since I do not need it. However, upon running syncdb, all of the django.contrib.auth tables are created even though they are not needed:

Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group_permissions
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user_user_permissions
Creating table auth_user_groups
Creating table auth_user
Creating table auth_message

The work around for this is to rename the app. Once I renamed it to 'site_auth', these tables were no longer created during syncdb.